Wellington Scoop / August 2013
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Divided over the flyover
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- The city council has voted in favour of a flyover at the Basin Reserve, in spite of the fact that the city continues to be deeply divided over the issue. The vote, by 7 to 6, is a disappointment for Mayor Celia Wade-Brown, who has argued against the flyover since she successfully campaigned for the mayoralty against the pro-flyover mayor Kerry Prendergast. It was a narrow win, and for a while the new council had a one-vote majority against the flyover. But then Andy Foster changed sides.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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They didn’t like it but they voted yes
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- I wish I’d been at yesterday’s Regional Council meeting. I would like to have heard more about why two regional councillors voted to support the Basin Reserve flyover after explaining why they didn’t like it. The DomPost reports from the meeting about the reluctant “yes” votes from Judith Aitken and Chris Laidlaw.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Replacing green space with green space
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- You can’t help agreeing with Helene Ritchie. After reading a Wellington City Council document showing plans to create green space in the middle of Kent and Cambridge Terraces, she pointed out correctly that there’s already green space in this area.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Where are the cycleways?
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- Though I’m only occasionally asked about it, I’m aware of an underlying question in the cycling community about “why isn’t there more evidence of progress for cycling under a ‘green’ mayor?” Questions are also occasionally asked about how this all fits with overall transport planning
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Impossible dreams
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- The news that Wellington Airport wants $200million of public money to pay for most of the cost of extending its runway seems to have relegated the proposal to the list of the city’s impossible dreams.
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Inevitable? Why one Basin flyover will be followed by a second Basin flyover
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- The NZ Transport Agency should come clean on its flyover plans. Our practice believes that one flyover will pave the way for a second. The Agency’s proposed options for mitigation of the flyover, which it has developed in agreement with the Wellington City Council, include a “commitment to consolidate state highway traffic away from Vivian Street and into a single east-west corridor.”
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The two-faced flyover
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- The flyover at the Basin Reserve will have two faces. The Basin Reserve face is too terrible to seen by cricketers, so it will be hidden by a new $12million building paid from roading funds. The other face won’t be hidden from anyone. Its ugliness will be seen by everyone else in the city, 24 hours a day, till the flyover is eventually demolished.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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My forty film festival awards
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- I’ve been going to the Wellington Film Festival for every one of its 42 years, even before it was rebranded as the NZ International Film Festival. So I’m claiming the right to offer my own personal festival awards.
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Blown away by the flyover
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- There’s a new addition to the list of bad things about the flyover that the Transport Agency wants to build alongside the Basin Reserve – motorbikes or light trucks could be blown over in strong winds while they’re on it, and there’ll be problems for pedestrians too.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The runway extension, petrol tankers, and Evans Bay’s unique marine life
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- Plans to extend the runway at the northern end of Wellington Airport involve a tunnel under the extension – with consequences that the City Council and the Regional Council have not yet taken into account. It’s against the law for fuel tankers to travel through tunnels, and there’s already a tunnel at the southern end of the runway.
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Another plan for avoiding the flyover
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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